Sentences with phrase «spent by the private schools»

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Mr. President, Senator Cruz's amendment expands tax subsidies for upper income households to aid private or parochial schools by allowing 529 account balances to spend up to $ 10,000 a year on private or parochial school tuition and supplies.

Here is the statement from Senator Wyden (D - Oregon) regarding his opposition to the amendment: Mr. President, Senator Cruz's amendment expands tax subsidies for upper income households to aid private or parochial schools by allowing 529 account balances to spend up to $ 10,000 a year on private or parochial school tuition and supplies.

The seeming implication by Breslin's camp is that Martland, an Albany High School graduate who left the Capital Region for Princeton University and Brooklyn Law School and spent more than two decades as a prosecutor and lawyer in the public and private sector downstate, is an outsider.

Indeed, according to the analysis conducted by the authors of this report, the use of school vouchers — which provide families with public dollars to spend on private schools — is equivalent to missing out on more than one - third of a year of classroom learning.

By giving parents «private accounts» to spend on digital learning, tutoring, and the like, it could weaken schools» larger improvement efforts, which are mostly funded by these federal dollarBy giving parents «private accounts» to spend on digital learning, tutoring, and the like, it could weaken schools» larger improvement efforts, which are mostly funded by these federal dollarby these federal dollars.

Romney's major proposal would expand school choice by essentially turning $ 15 billion in Title I funding and $ 12 billion in IDEA funds into «vouchers» that eligible students could spend to attend any district, charter, or private school (state law permitting) or for tutoring programs or digital courses.

At least 10 Arizona organizations that receive tax - credit donations for private school scholarships have failed so far to spend at least 90 percent of their revenues on the scholarships as required by law, according to an analysis by the Arizona Republic.

A 10 percent increase in private school enrollment also reduces the total educational spending per student by over 5 percent of the OECD average.

The bulk of his professional life was spent in marketing in the private sector, before being recruited by the Goizueta Business School at Emory University to be its associate dean for full - time MBA programs.

• Denver Public Schools, by comparison, spent 13 percent of its turnaround grant money so far on consulting and other help from private companies.

Instead of pouncing on Mr. Bush, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio might explain to voters why Barack Obama has spent his entire presidency trying to shut down a school voucher program in Washington, D.C., that gives poor black and brown children access to private schools and, according to the Education Department's own evaluation, improves their chances of graduating by as much as 21 percentage points.

OFM estimates the charter school bill would add $ 8.4 million to overall state spending over the next four years: $ 7.4 million in per - pupil allocations because the schools would attract some private - school and home - schooled students not currently covered in the state budget, and $ 1 million in new administrative costs incurred by state agencies.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee said he supports spending more public money on private school tuition around Tennessee, and that restrictions should be placed on lobbying by government entities that oppose school vouchers.

The impact of this idea is being fiercely felt today with state legislatures spending billions of tax dollars to fund separate, unfair and unequal systems of publicly funded education choices, including private school vouchers championed by Betsy DeVos and Jeb Bush.

Hansen places these teacher protests in the context of a national «war on teachers» narrative, fueled by working conditions declining, erosion of benefits and increased spending on charter schools and vouchers for families to attend private schools.

Charter School: Funded through public tax dollars from money meant for traditional public schools, operates in the private sector, may be managed by for - profit charter management organizations (CMO), and are not required to be transparent about how tax dollars are spent, free from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.

The administration achieves this reduction by slashing or eliminating funding for scores of K - 12, higher education, and adult literacy programs by even more than $ 9.2 billion in order to finance massive increases in defense spending coupled with, in the education context, a more than $ 1 billion allocation for Title I portability programs and private school vouchers.25

In this opinion, the New Mexico Attorney General declared that a voucher program under which the parents of exceptional children whose needs were not being met by the public schools could use the funds the school district would otherwise have spent on the children to purchase special education at private, nonsectarian institutions would be consistent with the New Mexico Constitution.

The Louisiana Supreme Court held that spending tax funds for secular educational services from teachers employed by private schools violated three provisions of the Louisiana Constitution: the prohibition against the enactment of any law respecting an establishment of religion and two Blaine Amendments subsequently repealed in 1973.

The amount of state money spent on each student using a private school voucher has increased by about 14 percent since 2010, according to a recent state memo.

The # 215 million boost followed an investigation by Schools Week which found councils last year spent # 480 million to place SEND pupils at private special schools because there were not enough places in state - funded mainstream and special sSchools Week which found councils last year spent # 480 million to place SEND pupils at private special schools because there were not enough places in state - funded mainstream and special sschools because there were not enough places in state - funded mainstream and special schoolsschools.

We spent 2014 planning every aspect of the four - year project, recruiting participant and mentor schools, and securing the private matching funds required by the i3 program.

The funds can then be spent by the child's parents on private school tuition, tutoring, or other education - related expenses.

Corcoran spent inordinate time focused on a lawsuit filed by the Florida Educators Association challenging the state's private school voucher program.

We strongly object to having our tax dollars suctioned out of public schools, where those hard - won rights apply, and spent to lure families into fly - by - night private schools, where all of the federal special education rights and protections disappear, to be replaced by nothing more binding than a warning of «buyer, beware!»

They support vouchers that would allow public funds to be spent on private schools — even those with religious orientations — and charter schools, which are frequently run by private corporations.

Like so many city parents before and after her, she spent her son's pre-K year applying to acclaimed charters, looking into private schools, even trying to «worm her way into» Center City's Greenfield Elementary by volunteering for cleanup days.

To estimate the total per pupil spending in DC area private schools, I began by entering the tuition data from the Washingtonian's 2007 - 08 Guide to Private Schools into a spreadsheet, eliminating boarding - only and pre-school-only institprivate schools, I began by entering the tuition data from the Washingtonian's 2007 - 08 Guide to Private Schools into a spreadsheet, eliminating boarding - only and pre-school-only institschools, I began by entering the tuition data from the Washingtonian's 2007 - 08 Guide to Private Schools into a spreadsheet, eliminating boarding - only and pre-school-only institPrivate Schools into a spreadsheet, eliminating boarding - only and pre-school-only institSchools into a spreadsheet, eliminating boarding - only and pre-school-only institutions.

The version approved by the Joint Finance Committee last week included flat funding for public schools, expanded private voucher schools attendance, continued teacher licensing, conversion of some Milwaukee schools to charter or private voucher schools, reduced transportation spending, huge slashing on the University of Wisconsin's funding, and elimination of 60 guard tower positions in the state's prisons.

A recent analysis by The Salt Lake Tribune also found that Utah charter schools spend millions of dollars outsourcing administrative operations to private companies that are not subject to public disclosure laws.

Until recently, most education - focused campaign spending not coming from teachers unions has been delivered by groups such as the American Federation for Children and the Great Lakes Education Project, both of which emphasize the use of public money to fund private schools with vouchers.

By 2014, states will be spending $ 1 billion a year to send children to private schools through vouchers, tax credits and similar programs, according to Robert C. Enlow, president of the Friedman Foundation, an advocacy group for school choice.

Three weeks ago at the Birth to Five Water Cooler produced by Advancement Project California, which included discussions with leading gubernatorial candidates, Newsom said he was «vehemently against» private for - profit charter schools, and that more scrutiny is needed of how the growing charter school sector is spending public funds.

The report notes that private school vouchers saw continued support by state lawmakers, moving them forward on a path to spend $ 1 billion on the program over a ten - year period, while efforts to increase transparency and accountability for the program failed.

Under such a program, funds typically spent by a school district would be allocated to a participating family in the form of a voucher to pay partial or full tuition for their child's private school, including both religious and non-religious options.

For example, if you send two kids to a private high school which costs an average of $ 20,000 a year for each child, by the time they both graduate you will have spent $ 240,000 on school fees.

Now retired and running only her private practice, Ms Baldacchino spent many years working as a school counsellor before studying family therapy followed by play therapy.

I think some parents feel the need to justify spending a lot of money on private school by putting down the public schools.